'I'm angry with the president': Florida Trump voters reeling from 'cruel and bad' policies
Source: Raw Story
November 4, 2025 12:17PM ET
Latino voters who helped seal Florida's status as a Republican stronghold are now reeling with anger, bewilderment and guilt over their support of President Donald Trump, according to El País. "Trumps manifesto of economic prosperity and law and order clashes with a reality that continues to punish disadvantaged families," writes Abel Fernández.
Nearly a year into Trump's first term and the Hispanic community, he writes, is deeply divided. "Frustration and regret have grown among those most affected by the rising cost of living, cuts to social programs and an immigration agenda that has torn the Hispanic community apart," Fernández writes.
The disenchantment, he says, is palpable across the state, with a list of complaints including "the disruption to government aid as a result of the government shutdown, the unstoppable rise in the cost of rest, and persistent inflation."
The loss of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, in particular, are affecting those in Miami-Dade County "especially hard," Fernández explains, where "the shift of the Latino vote from Democrat to Republican was key to Trumps victory last year."
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/im-angry-with-the-president-florida-trump-voters-reeling-from-cruel-and-bad-policies/
Here is the problem in a nutshell further in the article and it is something that Democrats deal with Presidential election cycle after Presidential election cycle, where the GOP will crash the economy, Democrats come in and spend much of their terms in office FIXING it, then come the next cycle and a GOPer wins, they were handed a "roaring economy" and many of the clueless believe it was the GOPer who got it there.
Lady - the last time 45 was in office, OBAMA handed him one of the best economies and job growth in modern times after getting the country out of the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression. 45 didn't do that. He managed to kill over 1 million people with the mishandling of a global pandemic, ushering in one of the greatest "shocks" to the economy in recent memory after 4 years in office. This time, it took him just a few months to get there again.
Aristus
(71,304 posts)of defective human protoplasm that ever slithered across the face of the Earth.
The failure of all of his businesses, and his living atop an ocean of debt didn't clue you guys in to what a loser this guy was?
Sucks to be you guys, I guess.
chouchou
(2,607 posts)....for and to our friends and acquaintances. We laid the whole Donald Con-Jobs in New York and all the nasty ass things he's done.
Now...they act like their family stood out on I-75 at 3:00 AM and tsk..tsk..a Tractor Trailer hit them ...."How could that happen"
My and my husband's sympathy is the size of the period on this sentence.
I could forgive them if they voted for Trump in 2016. A lot of people didn't really know that much about Trump other than from The Apprentice, though it wouldn't have taken too much effort to find out what a truly horrible man he was.
But geez, after one nightmarish term, there is no excuse for anyone voting for him again. Meanwhile, the Biden administration dealt effectively with the pandemic and passed more progressive legislation than I've seen since LBJ. People were finally able to see the light at the end of the tunnel and yet 77 million people decided to rehire Trump, as well as his many bootlickers in congress.
Nope, damn near impossible to have any sympathy for them at all. Democracy has some very serious flaws, especially when people treat elections like they're voting for a contestant on American Idol. Maybe as a country, we don't deserve democracy.
LisaM
(29,423 posts)Nor can I forgive the stay-at-homes and people who voted for third-party spoilers. We had an opportunity to elect one of the most amazing presidents in our lifetime and people threw it away. Trump always showed who he was.
BurnDoubt
(1,244 posts)PRICELESS!
At ANY COST?
Just smart enough to reproduce, sadly.
slightlv
(7,039 posts)MEN are too emotional to trust with any political office. The testosterone in their system makes them prone to immediately jump on the anger and violence bandwagon.
Throw back at them the very reason why they say women can't serve... that we're too emotional because of our hormones. And for good measure, throw in a "male menopause" meme, too!
mwmisses4289
(2,782 posts)You were told, you saw his first term, but your machismo was such that the thought of voting for a competent, caring Woman of colour scared the bejeezus out of you and you decided a criminal who is a male was a "better" choice, simply because he is a male. Well, you got it. Too bad you aren't happy with your choice.
Scalded Nun
(1,557 posts)COL Mustard
(7,801 posts)I said the same thing, just after you did.
COL Mustard
(7,801 posts)It's between "shit" and "syphilis".
mwmisses4289
(2,782 posts)dem4decades
(13,400 posts)berksdem
(887 posts)failed the easiest open book test of all time. sorry, your actions have consequences.
GB_RN
(3,465 posts)Seriously? Bewildered and angry? Cant blame Cantaloupe Caligula for that. Its not his fault YOU DIDNT FUCKING PAY ATTENTION! He told you assclowns exactly what he was going to do. You played footsie with him because you hated the Black/Indian woman and hated the idea of her being President even more.
You fucked around, so you found out. Fuck off.
With the most sincere feelings of Haha!, I bid you adieu et au revoir. May you have the day (and pResident) you deserve.
Joinfortmill
(19,524 posts)GB_RN
(3,465 posts)The whole thing is: Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent. 😁
BlueWavePsych
(3,309 posts)
CTyankee
(67,577 posts)I could forgive you but he hurts both of us and I can't get over it. Nor should I. Nor should you!
Some people just have to learn the hard way, you dopes. Only you are now hurting me and many of those I love and I don't get over that.
Escurumbele
(3,966 posts)They bought the idea that trump, in 2017, had created a great economy in one week, instead of understanding that the good economy was what Obama had created and left behind. They failed to see how trump destroyed the great economy he inherited.
I don't think they will learn, unfortunately. Latinos really suffer from "Stockholm Syndrome", they have to know republicans hate them, but they insist on wanting to be republican...How else can it be explained?
CTyankee
(67,577 posts)ananda
(33,991 posts)that they didn't know that Obama was responsible for
their economic well-being and believed it was Trump.
FakeNoose
(39,493 posts)They read Chump's garbage tweets on Xwitter and "truth" Social, and they believe all the crap on Faux Noise.
They are racists who refused to vote for a black woman, and they are getting exactly what they voted for.
Wake up people!

ananda
(33,991 posts)Thanks
bronxiteforever
(10,959 posts)Florida GOP Latinos are just useful idiots for GOP power. That party is for billionaire white folks only.
durablend
(8,773 posts)"NOT ME!!!!!!!"
Joinfortmill
(19,524 posts)niyad
(128,540 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,557 posts)COL Mustard
(7,801 posts)It's too bad no one knew what was going to happen. Not like he had a playbook or anything.
kimbutgar
(26,491 posts)My sympathy level is nil. After hearing him say Mexicans are murders and rapists to kick off his campaign in 2015 they should have known better was a frickin liar who doesnt give a $hit about them. They are the real suckers and losers.
calimary
(88,519 posts)And to many of us, he was rotten from WAY farther back than this year.
Very proud NOT to have been taken in. At all. EVER. NOT EVVVVERRR, with THIS lying cheating selfish asshole.
Irish_Dem
(77,969 posts)They have their heads right up their asses.
flamingdem
(40,755 posts)tv and radio programs. They're fairly clueless. On that level I might forgive if they LEARN and don't do it again. But for that to happen they'll have to question the right wing media. Talking Miami especially.
BidenRocks
(2,519 posts)How often did you wave it in a liberals face, just because?
Sorry, not sorry! I have NO fucks left to give!
On the bright side, you will lose weight.
Salud!
Dem4life1970
(1,019 posts)I mean they have no excuse. In 2016, they had no excuse, but in 2024 they had seen 8 years of his character and his results. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Aussie105
(7,408 posts)Is that what Trump promised?
And some believed him?
Selective hearing at work there. Majorly.
You ignore politics, you ignore Trump's history and the bad things he says and does, but you hear what you want to hear, "economic prosperity and law and order", and you say 'You got my vote!'
And then you go back to your semi conscious slumber state, and wait for the "economic prosperity and law and order" to happen.
Then you get impatient and start bitching about the non-delivery of the Promised Land.
What they heard:
"Economic prosperity and law and order" = prosperity for me, heavy handed law and order for those who get in my way.
Low information voters - the possible Death of Democracy?
Demobrat
(10,245 posts)because they have taken so many innocent people down with them. Lost your food stamps? How many people are going hungry because of what you did?
I just cant with those people.